What sports were you good at?

400m and cross country at school.

In 20's squash. Played Yorkshire League. Used to play 6 days a week for years.
 
Nano said:
I can pick anything up and have a go and be ok at it but I never excelled at anything. I was quite good at cross country as a kid but I hated it. That was probably the only thing I was one of the best at but it was miserable. I have never really run as an adult.

I was always good at footy and still play now but I was never great.
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Me too, quite good at most sports but not real good at any of them. Despite being quite good at Tennis, I was absolute rubbish at Squash and Badminton, our Dad hammered me at Squash and my younger Sister did the same at Badminton. Loved playing all of them though. Rubbish at Golf as well, although I did some marvellous cover drives with a 3 wood.
 
I always think that I'd have been good at rowing despite never having done more than hired a boat for an hour on a lake.

My reasoning is that I've got a very long torso but really short legs. I'm 6' tall and wear 30" long trousers. I should probably be a 28" but you don't really get them that length in my waist size.

If I'm on a plane, my head sticks up way above the headrest, invariably higher than anyone else's and there's a school team basketball photo from when I was a kid where all our heads are at the same level, but my shorts sit a good 6" lower than everyone else's.

Unfortunately I didn't ever realise that I had an ideal rowers build until I'd reached an age that makes an Olympic gold unlikely.

Plus, I dont think I'd like the calloused hands. I dated a girl who rowed, forty years ago, and it was like being tossed off by a scaffolder.
 
Football, cricket, cycling, borderline brave and stupid on motor powered vehicles. But never went far with any because I couldn’t even afford football shorts and boots.
 
I always thought I was good at boxing and have a shelf full of silver medals.
gregorgregorovich said:
Me too, quite good at most sports but not real good at any of them. Despite being quite good at Tennis, I was absolute rubbish at Squash and Badminton, our Dad hammered me at Squash and my younger Sister did the same at Badminton. Loved playing all of them though. Rubbish at Golf as well, although I did some marvellous cover drives with a 3 wood.
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Table Tennis, mainly because I had really quick reaction times. I actually had a European ranking number when I was 17.
It was a very high number, but still a number 🙂
My claim to fame was developing a new serving technique.
Problem was, the club I was a member of's training night clashed with The Madison's student night.
So that was that.
And the fact it was way, way down the list of cool things a 17/18 year old should be doing.
 
Rugby and football mainly, but tended to be decent at most others I tried, apart from darts.

Decent at pool, but not great at snooker beyond potting and very basic positioning.
 
I managed to play cricket with and against some professional cricketers. They were miles ahead of me, but it was superb to be around just to see the standard they played at first hand.
Yasir Shah played for Middlesbrough and went on to be no.1 ranked test bowler in the world and I played against him twice.
Nelson Pascal was at Boldon, he played for the West Indies the same year I played against him (couldn’t lay a bat on him for what it’s worth).

Anyway, back to the question, I was just about above average at most things, and through cricket that let me play against some unbelievably talented players. It’s a brilliant sport for that.
 
Football ... big, fast, physical .... very limited talent. School/college/Sunday league teams being my limit.
Swimming - was decent to town/county level in my teens, but some way below the best.
Rugby - probably the sport I was best at, relative to my peers. Played to a decent level as an open side wing forward.
Sailing. 4th in Yorkshire Schools Mirror Dinghy class. At county level, this is probably the highest result I ever achieved in any sport ... though it was a pretty niche thing to be honest.

Running - decent when I was lighter in my late teens. Sub 2 mins 800m runner. Nowadays fell running is my only participation sport, despite still being physically more suited to playing open side wing forward. I can still be competitive in the MV60 class (just finished 2nd in a series of 3 fell races).
 
Nothing remarkable, really. I was in the various sports teams at school (rugby, football, athletics) and it was probably the rugby team where I found most enjoyment. I was quick so I played wing and it meant I would run in lots of tries. But I also got to black belt in karate when I was about 16 and tried several times to get back into that in later life, but it requires a lot of time and dedication and I found that hard to manage when our first child came along. I

As a kid I was always doing sport - pretty much every day of the week at one stage - but I find it hard to get the motiviation these days, although I'm in pretty good shape.
 
Odd ball answer

Broke the Yorkshire junior record at Long Jump

Played rugby as a junior against Northumberland and Cumberland and Westmoreland

Cross country as a junior - North Ridings only

Won the North Riding G. S 4 x 100 yds ( with three other blokes mind !)

Ended up judging Gymnastics and culminated with the Commonwealth Games in Edingburgh in '86

Didn't do a lot of of athletic stuff after school but assisted heavily in the drinking activities of certain Rugby clubs - Sheffield Tigers, Winlaton Vulcans ( odd record played in every position on the field and for every level of side) Oldham, Redcar, Mowden Park, Roundhey
 
Still hold the longest unbeaten streak for Kerby on the street i grew up on.
Made a small income off Pigeon toss in school
Life was good, people respected me, potential rivals went into their shell when they saw me arrive on the kerbside spinning the ball on my middle finger. Sadly, being at the top was short lived due to 'pog gate' when i was banished for illegal use of a metal slammer in the summer of 97.
Still get the cold shoulder when i go home now. Sometimes, not excelling isnt always a bad thing. Nowadays i speak in schools sharing my experience hoping to help at least one child not make the mistakes i made.
 
I won the Marton Grove 3rd year juniors sports day obstacle course race in 1977 (or was in 78?), which was the pinnacle of my athletic career.
 
Another odd ball

We had a lad who played rugby for us SWT Redcar in a morning and Boro juniors in the afternoon - not many will have done that Kenny Thwaites / Frank Spraggon era
 
I was OK at marbles on the streets of Cargo Fleet. Once played in goal for Harcourt United in some local league, Mr Harcourt being a Grangetown bookie who paid for the strip and whose son Tommy always seem to get picked to play. The game I played in Wilf Mannion was on the opposing side.....Will Mannion Jnr to be precise, think his team was South Bank Juniors. We lost 2-3. The pinnacle of my sporting career was winning cross country in Stewart Park in my 1st year at Middlesbrough High School, still got a photo c 1960 of me and the other year winners
 
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